State Politics

Sen. Thom Tillis and the North Carolina Republican Party paid Cambridge Analytica in 2014 and 2015, before its work on the Donald Trump campaign. Facebook banned Cambridge Analytica on Friday, March 16, 2018, claiming the company obtained information from a third party that violated Facebook policies.

While Democratic Party leaders and some legislators have called for Rep. Duane Hall to resign amid sexual misconduct allegations, North Carolina House leaders and the majority of the chamber's legislators aren't speaking publicly about Hall or the push for strengthened sexual harassment policies.

The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Rep. Cedric Richmond, wants his NCAA task force to study several issues with the NCAA, including academics, recruiting and financial payments. North Carolina’s academic scandal with the NCAA results in years of hearings and appeals, but the school was not disciplined in the end for its no-show classes.

In the Atlantic community in Carteret County, two groundwater wells tested positive for above-recommended levels of PFOS and PFOA, potentially cancer-causing chemicals. The Department of Defense announced in 2016 that more than 390 installations had a known or suspected release of the chemicals, including six in North Carolina.

Students in Wake County, Durham, Chapel Hill and other local school districts protested in the March 14, 2018, national school walkout. The 17-minute demonstrations for better gun control and safer schools took place in over 2500 schools across America.

All staff members at the NC General Assembly will have to take a mandatory workplace harassment training course in April, according to an email sent by Legislative Services Officer Paul Coble on Wednesday, March 14, 2018.

A $58 million payment regarding the Atlantic Coast Pipeline should trigger a criminal investigation into NC Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, say NCGOP leaders Dallas Woodhouse and Robin Hayes. The fund is also the subject of an ethics complaint.